marked
our last calendar date.
To start all over again
would determine
man's fate.
From a foggy memory
I drew the logo
on the wall.
I needed answers.
There was no time
to stall.
We are now living in a cave
and the slate
is clean.
The future appears
dismal
from what we've seen.
It was adult supervision
which had started
the war.
The few who survived
became children
once more.
With a tiny piece of chalk
the breakthrough
came.
Alas,
now I remember
that most famous name.
The search which crossed
my childlike
mind
dissolved in the answer
I was trying
to find.
My bloody hands
painted the fossils
on this rock.
Since they dropped
the last bomb
I cannot talk
and the proverbial words
which were written
on this wall
could possibly help
the human race
to begin to crawl.
The GOOGLE search engine
is just
a façade
but once again
man's imagination
is the lightning rod.
If we can advance
this civilization
beyond our past mistakes
then our new classroom of higher learning
is what
it takes.
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